Dylan's Writing Stuff

Well, I performed a bit of an undercalculation. Turns out drafting a meeting of  6 national-level and 3 global-level agencies, as well as their leaders, is time consuming. What I'm saying is that Boredroom Meeting will be glacially slow. Instead, I will substitute a (hopefully) shorter story idea. The First Starfighter   1 st Lieutenant Njeri Idowu undertakes the maiden flight of S.T.A.A.R.’s first space-capable fighter craft, the XM-01 Space-Capable Combat Flight Chassis.   I'd like your opinions on the concept for The First Starfighter. All the comment has to do is tell me how to improve it, what's typed before doesn't matter!  -   Dylan

I stalled out on Windchill, too many details Za Warudo my thinking. But I completed another S.T.A.A.R. short story in an hours long marathon. This one is called Crowd Cover. Hotel-84's Alpha team engages in pursuit of an individual suspected of collaborating with a hostile ABE species. https://www.dropbox.com/s/7l2m0sl61ek0bik/S.T.A.A.R.%20Crowd%20Cover.docx?dl=0   I think the next story will also be a breather style. I'm currently flipping between   Interview:   Oscar-89 operators interview a man about the suspected alien-involved disappearance of his family.   or Boredroom Meeting:   Mike-28 sits through a meeting of the United Nations Extraterrestrial Activity Council.     Which do you like? Comment your choice and why below, so I know what types of stories to focus on.

Sorry for the long interval since the last update, school suddenly picked up and took up my time. Yesterday and today, I made some amazing progress on Windchill. I’ve reached the 3/4ths mark, and am currently prepping for the final section. I can’t promise a fixed release date, but I can give a ballpark of around the end of the year. Thanks to those who have followed along, and those who have simply visited once or twice. You keep me motivated, and that’s wonderful! I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving! - Dylan

When I came up with the idea of Windchill, I envisioned a quick production period of around a week. As you can tell, I was wrong. I realized I was trying to write in a style that doesn't fit the way I think. I was pantsing, writing without an outline or some other kind of plan. I've decided that my method is not so good, so I've decided to start a small outline before I finish writing the story. Sorry for the delay, I believe you deserve the best from me, so that's what I'll give. Look for further updates in the next few days. - Dylan

The next short story in the S.T.A.A.R. Universe will be titled Windchill . It will follow Operations Team Mike-16, which specializes in cold weather warfare, investigating reports from Assessment Team Peregrine-Crimson of potential alien activity near a remote Alaskan town. Once I start writing it, I'll be able to get a good estimate of when it will be completed. It will probably be a standard short story, rather than flash fiction like Orbital Drop was. Stay tuned for more info!

S.T.A.A.R.:   Orbital Drop   Private First Class Cady sat in the passenger compartment of the S-7 Sub-Orbital Troop Transport. They had recently finished drop training, and this was their first combat drop. There was a war going on in Estonia, between loyalists and the coup led by General Cvetkov , and S.T.A.A.R. Intelligence Command had received reliable reports of alien technology being deployed by the General’s forces. Someone or something was supplying them with advanced technology, and Intelligence wanted to know who. Central Command subsequently authorized Bravo-2 to launch a night raid on known coup positions to recover information on how these were attained. Two four man elements were deployed, Cady’s being Alpha.   “Stand by, two mikes to drop.” said the Dropmaster , and the team got up and prepared to enter their drop chutes. The drop chute system was designed to allow the entire stick to deploy toward the DZ while the transport was in motion, rather than havi